Scrum Master

We have an exciting opportunity for you!

We are seeking a Scrum Master to join our team. Below are the job details, please apply if you are interested and have similar skillset.

You will be responsible for maintaining a fast-paced scrum-based. You will work very closely with the Product Owner Team and a team spread across multiple cities. You will work with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners to integrate developments with other teams, vendors, or shared resources. You will guide your product team to adhere to the scrum framework and maintain the highest standards of compliance, security and scale.

• Use your skills, experience and talent to be a part of rapid and innovative development. As a Scrum Master, youll take the lead as you…
• Lead a self-organized team that you garner respect from
• Roll up your sleeves to creatively solve problems and tackle impediments with your team
• Communicate constantly with relevant information that others may action or learn from
• Demonstrate the value of scrum principles to members of the team
• Assert yourself as a voice of reason to ensure Agile concepts and principles are adhered to
• Make decisions when the going gets tough and facilitate decision-making moments for others
• Provide rationale and state assumptions to validate those tough decisions
• Address and facilitate conflict, in the moment, with diplomacy and poise or possibly elevate issues to management
• Energize the team with a positive attitude
• Continually seek to improve the teams velocity and growth while constantly seeking to improve your own craft
• Empower the team to be self-organized yet structured around the scrum framework and best practices
• Provide clear visibility into progress to the product owner and program manager
• Know when issues or risks need to be escalated and can escalate effectively, providing options to move forwards
• Create and manage budgets and report on budget and status to the business stakeholders, PMO, program & technology management and multiple cross-functional partners
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure the team’s sprint backlog is filled with comprehensive user stories that are balanced across task types
• Hold an attitude of transparency to grow trust from stakeholders, partners, and team members
• Adapt, pivot and change direction based on product owner direction and business needs
• Convey and illustrate the fundamentals of iterative development
• Understand the basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
• Commit the team to deliver the features of the sprint and check the pulse of this commitment at each team stand up
• Manage backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
• Highlight best practices, industry standards and Agile principles where guidance is needed
• Radiate information that helps with the moving parts of integrating the team, the initiatives, the systems, and the organization

Must have skills

• 6 years of overall experience, with at least 3+ of those years in a Scrum Master role
• Experience working in an agile development including tools like JIRA, Confluence and others
• Strong communication skills, team management and ability to build relationships across cross-functional teams
• Proven experience with technical implementations, especially those involving Data integration
• 2 or more years of experience managing remote teams
• Demonstrated experience of instilling a continuous improvement culture

Nice have skills

• Retail experience is considered a plus
• Nice to have first level scrum training (Certified Scrum Master)